Power Washing in Lacey Township, NJ: Salt, Pollen and Roof Algae Gone
Soft wash for the lagoon streets off Beach Boulevard and the pine-shaded subdivisions west of Route 9: two very different kinds of dirt, one request.
Power washing in Lacey Township is really two jobs, and the reason is how the place got built. The township added roughly 13,500 residents between 1980 and 2010, then barely a thousand more in the decade after. Most of the siding, decks and driveways here have been in the weather a long time, sitting over an older waterfront layer. Very little of it needs replacing. It needs the grime taken off.
The lagoon side, east of Route 9
East of Route 9 is bay country: houses built along dredged canals with the boat slip at the back of the lot, and Barnegat Bay taking whatever runs off. Salt is the trouble. It works into vinyl and stays put, and shaded north walls grow black mildew streaks over the top of it. Docks, bulkhead-height decks and railings never fully dry.
Those surfaces get a soft wash: low pressure, with the cleaning solution doing the work. The force it takes to strip a driveway will push water behind siding and chew up a weathered deck board. On raised houses that includes the newer siding and the exposed pier framing. The rinse water matters, too: on a lagoon lot it all ends up in the bay.
Under the pines, west of Route 9
Different house, different dirt. The subdivisions off Lacey Road sit on sandy Pine Barrens ground, with mature pine and oak left standing between the homes. That shade is worth having in August, and hard on a roof: algae darkens the north slope, moss takes hold, needles pack the gutters, and sap and tannin stain concrete a rusty brown.
Roof cleaning here is a soft wash as well. Nobody should run a pressure wand across asphalt shingles. Driveway and concrete cleaning lifts that staining off aprons, walkways and patios. Under pine, gutter cleaning is a standing appointment.
The season it matters most
Spring. Pine pollen turns the west side of town yellow for a few weeks, and by the time it quits in late May the winter’s salt has had months to set on bayfront siding. Done before Memorial Day, a house looks new again for the stretch when boats are back in the slips at Forked River State Marina. Route 9 storefronts want the same head start; that is most of the commercial work here.
Selling instead? Lacey doesn’t require a certificate of occupancy on resale, so your listing photos carry the first impression. Toms River is about 21 minutes up through Berkeley Township. Send your address and the request goes to an independent local company to put a free estimate together.
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